Now, as the movie celebrates its 50th anniversary, the familiar town house at 169 East 71st Street where Holly Golightly lived and hosted her wild cocktail parties has gone on the market for $5.85 million.

The four-story house, which is in a landmark district, figured prominently in the 1961 film. It was here that Holly Golightly, as played by Audrey Hepburn, lived alongside Paul Varjak, the aspiring writer played by George Peppard.

The house, with its stately dark green double doors, no longer has the green and white striped window awnings it wore in the movie, but it is not difficult to imagine Holly sweeping out of a cab after a late night of revelry and racing up the steps.

Michael WeinsteinThe town house at 169 East 71st Street is now listed for $5.85 million.

The house is owned by Peter E. Bacanovic, who came to some unwelcome renown a few years ago. A former Merrill Lynch broker, he was sentenced to five months in prison for his role in the Martha Stewart insider-trading case. He now works as a management consultant and “wants to make a change” on the real estate front, said his listing agent, Robert Browne, a senior vice president of the Corcoran Group.

Mr. Bacanovic bought the house for $1.88 million in 2000. It is divided into two duplex apartments, but Mr. Browne said it could easily be converted back into a single-family home. Mr. Bacanovic lives in the upper apartment; a tenant in the garden duplex will leave when the house is sold. The upper apartment has three fireplaces and two bedrooms with en-suite baths. The garden apartment has two fireplaces, two bedrooms, a solarium and a large backyard.

Movie Web sites insist that while the exterior of the house was used extensively in the movie, the interior scenes were filmed on a Hollywood set. But Mr. Browne says the previous owner told Mr. Bacanovic that the house had been used for some interior scenes, with cameras perched outside so they could shoot into the rooms.

Mr. Browne said his client had done a little research of his own and was convinced that the party Holly hosted in a dress fashioned from a bed sheet was held in his living room. He told Mr. Browne he recognized the original window shutters.

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